If it was just a plasma crash, then ssh and/or the alt keys would have
worked to switch terminals.
Details said neither worked. The kernel and/or a significant part of
userspace was deadlocked and/or crashed.
On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 1:11 PM Ed Greshko <ed.greshko(a)greshko.com> wrote:
>
> On 31/07/2021 01:43, Roger Heflin wrote:
> > Total lockup would have to be a complete kernel crash during the
> > update. As others have said, offline would probably not reduce the
> > risk of this sort of crash.
>
> I think it is unwise to assume it was a "kernel" crash.
>
> As I mentioned, the screen showed a plasma component being updated at the time of the
freeze.
>
> No matter. As I said this is my first system freeze since probably 2017. Heck, it
could have been caused
> by a voltage spike for all I know since I spent 0 time looking at logs. I just spent
time cleaning up.
>
> I'm sorry I even mentioned this. All it does, and I should have known better, is
bring up speculation.
>
> My participation in this thread I started is at an end. :-)
>
>
> --
> Remind me to ignore comments which aren't germane to the thread.
>
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